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Missing Starbucks: A Vancouver West Side Story

When we moved to Vancouver eight years ago, I followed Greg's lead when we were choosing a neighbourhood to live in. I was young, and it was a mistake. We bought a house in what I now think of as the deep West Side*, a quiet area with single-family homes, sleepy streets and housing prices that have risen so dramatically since we moved in that I'm sometimes embarrassed to tell people where I live, as my peers struggle to afford to buy into the market at all. We probably should have moved to the MMore